Microsoft · 18 hours ago
Senior RTL to Physical Design Engineer
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
5+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company focused on delivering core infrastructure and foundational technologies for a range of online services. They are seeking a Senior RTL to Physical Design Engineer to bridge the gap between front-end design and back-end teams, ensuring high-quality RTL and collateral file drops to physical design.
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Responsibilities
You will be a key link between front-end design and back-end teams
As a leader in the enablement of quality RTL and collateral file drops to PD, you will be responsible for implementing feedback and mitigations in the design constraints and toolchain to ensure best-case PPA
Effective communication skills will be needed to coordinate with RTL, DFT, CAD and physical design teams
You will participate in flow development, design automation, and correlation exercises to back-end flows
You are expected to work with limited direction and have attention to detail
You will also be expected to be able to provide crisp status of progress, issues, and risks on the program to the management team
Qualification
Required
Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Preferred
Bachelor of Science in Electrical or Computer Engineering
8+ years of experience in hardware design
8+ years of experience in Synthesis, Timing constraints, Front-end design checks and Power Performance Area (PPA) trade-offs
Experience in collateral development including timing and synthesis constraints
Experience in front-end design checks including LEC, Lint, Formal Equivalence, and CDC/RDC
Experience in recent synthesis tool capabilities and methods for QoR improvement
Experience in static timing analysis
Experience in DFT insertion flows and timing constraints
Familiarity with RTL and gate-level power analysis/optimization, UPF, and power-intent verification
Experience with the project-level setup and configuration of 1 or more of the tools related to above disciplines
Experience in translating physical design results into feedback for flow or RTL improvement
Experience in Tcl, Perl, Python, shell programming
Knowledge of full RTL2GDS flow
Experience in ICC, power integrity analysis, ESD, PV
Good communication and self-motivated that can collaborate with larger teams within Microsoft
Occasional travel
Company
Microsoft
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